1. THINKING BEYOND THE OBVIOUS
Data Warehousing &
Business Intelligence Masterclass
18 – 19 April 2012
Indaba Hotel and Conference Centre,
Corner William Nicol and Pieter Wenning Street,
Fourways, Johannesburg, South Africa
SETA Accreditation No. 2502

2. MOTIVATION & OVERVIEW
Today’s Business Intelligence (BI), demands extensive data accessibility, extreme
information clarity and far reaching flexibility in the delivery and use of decision-making
support. End users expect that the information they seek be immediately available, its
context and meaning totally clear and its possible uses instantly obvious. Their real
business focus is that the information is consistent and correct at the moment of receipt,
enabling rapid and appropriate decision making.
Recent extensive technological advances such as cloud computing, big data, massively
parallel and in-memory databases, predictive, operational and text analytics, mobile BI
and agile BI are opening up new and exciting opportunities to drive innovation and
business value from BI. However, to succeed in today’s competitive, fast‐paced business
environment, it is imperative that the right information is aggregated and delivered to
the right people at the critical moment when a decision must be made. It is therefore
imperative and necessary that IT re-examine the entire delivery system for business
intelligence so that the organisation’s information resource is current, reliable and of
immediate value to the business.
This Masterclass examines these new trends in data warehousing and business intelligence
applications with a critical look at how they will be driving business decision making in
the next few years in Africa and the world.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
Attending this Masterclass will prepare you to support emerging business trends in
BI with the most appropriate new technology. You will discover how to broaden and
strengthen business intelligence in your organisation and define the steps you need to
take to empower executives and other decision makers to analyze information and make
decisions that provide timely and lasting business value.
By attending this two day insightful Masterclass you will gain:
• Insights into how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we do business
• An understanding of the relevance of big data to your organisation
• Expert know-how into how collaboration and social media are driving team
approaches to decision-making
• Capacity to undertake agile BI application development for real-time deliverability
• Leading-edge expertise on how to implement BI mobility strategies for a
competitive market advantage
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
• IT Executives
• IT Managers
• Web Architects
• Data Architects
• Data Analysts
• Business Analysts
• Project Managers
• CIOs
• Data Warehousing Managers
• Data Modeler
• ETL Developers (Extract, Transform & Load data) Developers
• BI Developer
GLOBAL PROSPECTUS TRAINING (PTY) LTD. Chief Executive O er - Dhevaraj Pillay
Johannesburg - Tel: +27 11 781 6222 Fax: +27 11 781 6044 Marketing - m2@globalprospectus.co.za Auditors - Russell Bedford SA (Jhb) Inc.
Pietermaritzburg - Tel: +27 33 391 4229 Fax: +27 33 391 5722 Design - www.designmaster.co.za (071 018 8355) Legal - DA Morris & Associates

3. YOUR FACILITATORS
Dr. Barry Devlin Principal & Founder,
9sight Consulting
Dr. Barry Devlin is a founder of the data warehousing industry and among the
foremost authorities worldwide on business intelligence (BI) and beyond. He is a widely
respected consultant, lecturer and author of “Data Warehouse--from Architecture to
Implementation”. Barry has 30 years of experience in the IT industry, previously with
IBM, as an architect, consultant, manager and software evangelist.
He is the founder and principal of 9sight Consulting, Barry provides strategic consulting
and thought-leadership to buyers and vendors of BI solutions. He is a regular contributer
to BeyeNETWORK, Focus, O’Reilly Radar and an associate editor of TDWI’s
Journal of Business Intelligence. Living in Cape Town, South Africa, he travels regularly
to Europe.
Barry is currently developing a new architectural model for fully consistent business
support--from informational to operational and collaborative--Business Integrated
Insight (BI2).
Angelo Kehayas Founder and Managing Director,
Blue Arrow International and Profweb
Angelo Kehayas is the founder and Managing Director of Blue Arrow International
and Profweb. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree, plus two diplomas in business
management (one a post-graduate diploma) as well as an MBA. He has extensive
management, IT, consulting and programme management experience in large and
small organisations.
With over 23 years of experience, Angelo has managed multi-million Rand operational
and capital budgets, including substantial information technology projects and diverse
architectures. He has consulted for Mondi Group, Forests, Cartonboard, Mondipak,
Nampak, Cadbury, Ginsberg Malan and Carsons, Mines Pension Fund, JCI, Goldfields,
and PSG. He was also involved in groundbreaking projects that led to the corporatisation
of Transnet; Saponet and Telebank for the then SA Posts and Telecommunications.
He is a past board member of FASSET and has served on the ACFIST SGB. He is a
fellow, past president and executive director of the Institute of Management Consultants
of South Africa, member of the executive committee of the International Council of
Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) and chairs the international standards
workgroup. He is also a member of the Computer Society of South Africa and a vice
president of the Association of Project Management.
Donovan Bryne General Manager: International Online
Services, LexisNexis
Donovan Byrne is the General Manager: International Online Services at LexisNexis.
He has over 14 years experience in online research and media monitoring, having
worked for Top international content providers like Reuters, Factiva and Dow Jones.
He is responsible for marketing and selling LexisNexis International Online services
(Legal, Risk & Compliance, Media Monitoring and News & Business research tools) in
Sub-Saharan Africa. His style, content, tools and expertise provide a unique portfolio of
offerings that is designed to position you to succeed.
As a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions to professionals
in law firms, corporations, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic
institutions, risk and compliance assessment, Donovan manages a broad-spectrum of
client accounts and services that have seen him travelling around Africa.
GLOBAL PROSPECTUS TRAINING (PTY) LTD. Chief Executive O er - Dhevaraj Pillay
Johannesburg - Tel: +27 11 781 6222 Fax: +27 11 781 6044 Marketing - m2@globalprospectus.co.za Auditors - Russell Bedford SA (Jhb) Inc.
Pietermaritzburg - Tel: +27 33 391 4229 Fax: +27 33 391 5722 Design - www.designmaster.co.za (071 018 8355) Legal - DA Morris & Associates

4. PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
All timings are approximate due to the interactive nature of the course.
08:30 Registration & morning coffee 13:30 Workshop continues
09:00 Start of workshop 15:00 Afternoon refreshments
10:30 Morning refreshments 15:15 Workshop continues
10:45 Workshop continues 16:45 End of workshop
12:15 Networking Lunch
COURSE AGENDA DAY 1: AM
Business trends and Emerging technology for BI – an Overview
Business innovation and technological advances are driving and reshaping the way information is acquired,
stored and utilized. Dynamic changes in data warehousing applications and BI tools are determining
how executives and other decision makers analyse information and make decisions that provide lasting
business value to their organisations. These new technologies have become the hallmark for business
excellence and progress. This session looks at these emerging technologies and how they can make a
difference in advancing decision making—strategic, tactical and real-time.
You will learn:
• Key business trends in BI and data warehousing
• How new technology in databases and hardware are changing BI
• Big data, its value and technology underpinnings
• Cloud computing and data warehousing
• Social media and collaboration—how it reinvents BI
• Operational analytics—how it changes data acquisition
• Where to use mobile BI and where not
• Organisational considerations for modern BI
• A new architectural approach to BI for the 21st century
COURSE AGENDA DAY 1: PM
Smarter systems as best deliverable vehicles
for competitive market advantage
To sustain market leadership and competitive advantage, organisations need to be agile and definitely
mobile. In order to achieve this, a company cannot install fixed or hard-to-change systems that limit
information deliverability in real-time. Decision making would be delayed considerably due to the archaic
state of such information system, because it would take ages for ‘organisational-active-information’—
(that is, an organisation’s information knowledge that is current, reliable and of immediate value)—to be
aggregated and delivered promptly. This session looks at the need for modern smart systems that can give
the required advantage in a highly competitive market place.
You will learn:
Smartphones and business mobility
• Mobilising core business networks for quick customer interactivity
• Decision making on the move – flexibility, responsiveness and productivity
• Seamless deliverability – fixed-mobile convergence
• Virtual data warehousing - accessibility anywhere, anytime
• Mobility business solution – reaching the customer first before the competition
Business mobility strategies for competitive market advantage
• Remove complexities of disparate networks to enable flexibility in information usage
• Enable remote access to device & network diagnostics for troubleshooting analytics
• Simplify and accelerate application development for real-time deliverability
• Provide standards-compliant Interfaces to enable accurate and reliable information exchange
GLOBAL PROSPECTUS TRAINING (PTY) LTD. Chief Executive O er - Dhevaraj Pillay
Johannesburg - Tel: +27 11 781 6222 Fax: +27 11 781 6044 Marketing - m2@globalprospectus.co.za Auditors - Russell Bedford SA (Jhb) Inc.
Pietermaritzburg - Tel: +27 33 391 4229 Fax: +27 33 391 5722 Design - www.designmaster.co.za (071 018 8355) Legal - DA Morris & Associates

5. COURSE AGENDA DAY 2: AM
Applying next generation Business tools to give you market leverage
In today’s dynamic information driven world, companies need to realise that to gain competitive advantage
and market leverage; they must apply Business tools that best showcase how to achieve better customer
relations, increase product acceptance and initiate management processes guaranteed to bring return on
investments (ROI). But applying tools such as BI is only one-half of the challenge, as a correct decision
making process must include CI (Competitive Intelligence) insights, Risk and Reputation solutions to
yield any form of results. It is therefore imperative for organisations to set up new conceptual frameworks
for translating Business tools into effective operational outcomes; if positive results must be achieved to
position such organisation as a market leader. This session looks at this critical requirement in achieving
market leverage through next generation tools.
You will learn:
BI guidelines to control decisions and leverage market leadership
• Set up conceptual frameworks to make management decision-centric
• Initiate better business decisions to deliver required ROI
• Identify and overcome challenges in translating Business tools into operational decision outcomes
• Strategise on how to apply business decision outcomes to gain competitive advantage and
market leverage
Keep BI decisions timely, relevant and usable
• Initiate Business intelligence transactional information applications
• Keep BI data as close to real-time deliverability as possible
• Relate information usability to decision making
• Make judicial use of BI in order to identify the correct line of action to be taken
COURSE AGENDA DAY 2: PM
Initiating early detection testing processes to guarantee correct data usability
Business Intelligence data provides past, present, and predictive analytics views of business operations.
With a lot of transactional data in separate (and often multiple) data warehouses, management often
finds it difficult to access information in timely, efficient and even correct manner to make good business
decisions. The ability to review historical trends and to correctly monitor near real-time operational data
has become a key competitive advantage today. To achieve this, companies must ensure that their ETL
(Extract, Transform and Load) applications are free from software defects, in order to provide correct
information. There is nothing as potentially damaging and costly to a company as using incorrect data to
make critical business decision. This session looks at ways to prevent incorrect data usability by providing
early detection testing processes.
You will learn:
Data testing goals to safeguard ETL applications
• Data completeness - ensure that all expected data is loaded.
• Data transformation - ensure that all data is transformed correctly according to business rules or
design specifications.
• Data quality - ensure that the ETL application correctly rejects, substitutes default values, corrects or
ignores and reports invalid data.
• Performance and scalability - ensure that data loads and queries perform within expected time frames
and that the technical architecture is scalable.
• Integration testing - ensure that the ETL process functions well with other upstream and downstream
processes.
• User-acceptance testing - ensure solutions meet users’ current expectations and anticipate their future
expectations.
• Regression testing - ensure existing functionality remains intact each time a new release of Code
system is completed.
Panel Discussion
Data security and ethical hacking
Data security has become the major concern for most companies in the twenty-first century. Considering
how easy it has become to hack into secure networks and steal valuable data or send viral assault on
company data security walls, the need for advanced data security strategies has become all but obvious.
The cloud has made it extremely easy to hack into various systems, firewall or not. For most companies,
data security and anti-corporate espionage procedure has gone beyond installing anti-virus and firewall
software. New techniques in data security require Implementation of strategies where ethical hackers
are employed to secure company data by constantly searching for and ‘spiking’ criminal hackers. This
panel looks at the aspect of data security and ethical hacking and how companies can identify when to
implement this strategy. It also addresses the issue of ethics in hacking, and looks at the thin line between
criminal hacking and ‘white hat hacking’ as ethical hacking is called.

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Business Intelligence
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GLOBAL PROSPECTUS TRAINING (PTY) LTD. Chief Executive O er - Dhevaraj Pillay
Johannesburg - Tel: +27 11 781 6222 Fax: +27 11 781 6044 Marketing - m2@globalprospectus.co.za Auditors - Russell Bedford SA (Jhb) Inc.
Pietermaritzburg - Tel: +27 33 391 4229 Fax: +27 33 391 5722 Design - www.designmaster.co.za (071 018 8355) Legal - DA Morris & Associates